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July 5, 2012
SLIDESHOW - What might July 4 look like if Twitter had existed back to the early days of the Republic?
July 5, 2012
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Oliver Stone has smoked great marijuana all over the world, from Vietnam and Thailand to Jamaica…
July 5, 2012
Gold medalist and former world-class sprinter Michael Johnson has chimed in on why he thinks so many black athletes dominate…
July 5, 2012
MSNBC - While Americans were watching fireworks displays and enjoying barbecues, Chris Rock was stirring up some fireworks of his…
June 26, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - A rare original copy of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation sold Tuesday at a New York…
June 19, 2012
President Barack Obama on Tuesday issued a proclamation commemorating Juneteenth, the annual remembrance of the formal end of slavery in…
June 19, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Welcoming over 10,000 visitors a year, the Penn Center, which has 19 buildings in all and a…
June 19, 2012
(AP) - Adidas canceled plans for a sneaker with a shackle-like ankle cuff Monday night after some critics said it…
June 15, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Adidas has released a new shoe design set to hit stoess in August. Their design is causing…
June 14, 2012
The annual Juneteenth celebration in Stockton is the anniversary of Texas abolishing of slavery...
June 12, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - University of Michigan archaeologists have resumed their dig of the home to James Holliday, a freed slave…
June 8, 2012
The first statue of Dred Scott will be unveiled today in St. Louis, Missouri in front of the historic Old…
May 29, 2012
ALBANY, N.Y. - Nearly 150 years after the last fusillade of the Civil War, historians, authors and museum curators are…
May 22, 2012
OPINION - Given Tarantino's established history and the brutal realities of the slavery era, anyone looking for cultural sensitivity or…
May 21, 2012
OPINION - While the African-Americans and LGBT communities have each experienced a legacy of oppression and a struggle for equality…
April 26, 2012
In director Quentin Tarantino's new film, 'Django Unchained' , takes place in the pre-Civil War South...
April 12, 2012
The poster for Quentin Tarantino's highly anticipated and sure-to-be-controversial upcoming slavery revenge thriller 'Django Unchained' has been unveiled...
March 14, 2012
Glenn McConnell, the new lieutenant governor of South Carolina, has a fondest for recreating Confederacy-era dress and culture...
March 7, 2012
Paid for by americanatheists.org, the billboard says 'Slaves, obey your masters," which is a quote from the Bible...
March 6, 2012
VIDEO - In her essay, which was written for a contest, Williams reflected on what Douglass heard his slave master,…